Art, Boys, Sarcasm

This lily pad you've landed on is one stop shopping for all things of that singular lovely nature. Mostly writers, quotes, pictures, pretty boys and anything else that takes hold of the life of this rather ordinary girl from the middle of America and reduces her behavior to that of a demented ferret.

[rozanovy]

Yuna Hollander Gagged by Her Own Prediction HEATED RIVALRY (I'll Believe in Anything, 1.05)

[teethburied]

The Borgias 2.03 The Beautiful Deception

[sinmonger]

François Arnaud | Man About Town UK Photoshoot | 04/01/26

[sinmonger]

François Arnaud | Heated Rivalry's François Arnaud Gets Ready for the Saint Laurent Show | Vanity Fair | 01/28/26

[bigkuzdra]

Permission (2017)

[ilya-sweetheart]

Ilya showing up in ottawa in his adidas princess diana revenge dress

they are one and the same. to me.

[wintersoldierfell]

you've heard of death of the author, now get ready for death of the audience: where instead of basing your reaction on a thousand uninformed opinions online, you actually read the text and engage with it

[wintersoldierfell]

girl help there's people on this post who can't actually read my text

[girlofunderworld]

There’s a real fear that people will accept artificial intelligence as a valid alternative to the creative vision of a fellow human. It completely mystifies me. Because no matter what AI can accomplish, it holds no interest for me. What I care about in art is the window it opens to the human being behind it. [What I love most about my profession are] the surprises, the people I meet, and those few moments of complete freedom, when the stars seem to align, and we manage to create something we don’t even fully understand ourselves.

— François Arnaud reflects on his profession

[chantssecrets]

[shnehollander]

Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov in Heated Rivalry (2025—)

[gaynehollander]

The fact of the matter is that people in Shane's life would generally assume he's incredibly awkward about sex. Honestly, it's hard to imagine him ever even having it.

So when they find out that he's apparently been with Ilya Slut Extraordinaire™ Rozanov for years it's genuinely baffling. Because if he locked up the NHL's presumed Most Laid Player that unsociable, sober, macrobiotic-diet-having, hockey-hyperfixated motherfucker must be getting his back broken on the daily.

[my-2nd-account]

Shane jerks off to Ilya Rozanov top 15 most brutal on ice fights that almost ended his carrer video on YouTube

Ilya jerks off to a blurry 7 second video he took of Shane doing laundry

[itsmythang]

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

[shut-up-gwen]

Ilya: this guy is cute, I should start a stationary bike race so he knows I want to get sweaty together

Ilya: that didn’t quite work. Maybe I should just give him the eye? While I tell him I hope he likes his new city?

Ilya: okay. But surely if I make him drink from my water bottle and brush his fingers when passing it over…?

Ilya: call him pretty. To his face. No way he can miss that

Ilya: desperate measures, I’ll have to tell him I orchestrated this whole ad campaign just so I could see him again

Ilya: WHAT IF I STARTED JERKING OFF IN THESE COMUNAL SHOWERS?

[kiramisuuu]

Shane, 7 years later: I have figured out that you like me.

[atomictourists]

Piping hot take: I don't give a shit if straight actors play queer characters as long as they do so with empathy and authenticity. When you say shit like "only queer actors should play queer characters" what you're actually saying is only OUT queer actors should play queer characters. If you're assuming an actor (or anyone else, for that matter) who hasn't declared their sexuality is straight, you are participating in heteronormativity.

[ilyaslouis]

HEATED RIVALRY 1.01 | 1.06

[byjove]

One of my mom’s roommates in college kept dumping food scraps in their yard and it attracted wildlife. Eventually one particularly large and aggressive opossum took up residence on the front porch and everyone was so afraid of her that they were too frightened to use the door at night. I asked my mom why they didn’t gently push her away with a broom as possums tend to be fairly non-confrontational in comparison to other Appalachian wildlife and I know my mother is not frightened of them. She said “If you had seen her, you would have understood.”

The imagery is hilarious to me. A group of 20 year old girls in the late 1980s in their Friday date night best, hair permed and teased to the heavens, anxiously chain smoking cigarettes, repeatedly looking out the front door to see if the menace has vacated the porch yet, trapped inside their shitty rental house by an 8 pound possum like princesses held hostage by a dragon.